Gianfranco Conti

This book is meant as a revision resource for GCSE Spanish. It can be used independently by students as well as for classroom practice. It contains 12 units which focus mainly on the themes of environment, health and career. Gianfranco Conti, Ronan Jezequel & Dylan Vi ales Edited by Jaume Llorens, Paloma Lozano Garc a & In s Glowacka Units start with a knowledge organiser, recapping the the target sentence patterns and lexical items, a series of receptive vocabulary building activities; a set of narrow reading texts and activities; a set of translation tasks. The tasks are graded in order to pose an increasingly demanding but manageable cognitive load and challenge and are based on Dr Conti's P. I. P. O. framework: - Pre-reading tasks (activation of prior knowledge & pre-teaching) - In-reading tasks (intensive exploitation of tasks) - Post-reading tasks (consolidation) - Output (pushed-output tasks) Consistent with Dr Conti's E. P. I. approach, each of the 12 units in the book provide extensive recycling of the target lexical items both within each unit and throughout the book, across all the dimensions of receptive and productive processing, i.e.: orthography (single letters and syllables), lexis (both words and chunks), grammar/syntax (with much emphasis on functional and positional processing), meaning and discourse. The recycling occurs through input-flooding and forced retrieval through a wide range of engaging, tried and tested, classic Conti tasks (more than 20 per unit). These include student favourites such as slalom writing, faulty translation, spot the missing detail, sentence puzzles, etc. Please note that both The Language Gym and SentenceBuilders.com websites are ideal supplements to this book. Both websites recycle every single lexical and structural item found in this book many times over via selfmarking vocabulary and reading workouts, in addition to engaging and fun games and a powerful verb trainer.

Het boek bevat 19 hoofdstukken die te maken hebben met een specifieke communicatieve functie, zoals 'Het uiterlijk en de persoonlijkheid van mensen beschrijven', 'Mensen vergelijken en contrasteren', 'Zeggen wat je wel en niet leuk vindt' of 'Zeggen wat jij en anderen in de vrije tijd doen'. In de inhoudsopgave van dit boek is per hoofdstuk de communicatieve functie aagegeven. Elk hoofdstuk bevat: een schema met zinsstructuren die constructies in de doeltaal modelleren;een reeks oefeningen om de woordenschat op te bouwen;een reeks zeer begrijpelijke leesteksten die worden gebruikt voor een diversiteit aan takendie zich richten op zowel de betekenis als de structuur van de tekst;een reeks vertaaltaken om de stof op te halen;een reeks schrijftaken gericht op belangrijke microvaardigheden zoals spelling, ophalen van woordenschat, syntax en bewerken en communiceren van betekenis. Elk schema met zinsstructuren aan het begin van een hoofdstuk bevat n of meer constructies die zijn geselecteerd met real-life communicatie in gedachten. Elk hoofdstuk is rond die constructie(s) gebouwd, maar niet uitsluitend daarop. Gebaseerd op het principe dat elke EPI-instructiereeks van modellering naar productie moet gaan, breidt elk hoofdstuk het materiaal in elk schema met zinsstructuren uit door het in te bedden in teksten en stapsgewijs opgebouwde taken die zowel bekende als onbekende (maar begrijpelijke en leerbare) woordenschat en structuren bevatten. Door veel en zorgvuldig hergebruik en uitgebreide verwerking van de input, heeft de leerling aan het einde van elk hoofdstuk veel mogelijkheden om met de nieuwe woordenschat en patronen geconfronteerd te worden en deze te verwerken met materiaal van voorgaande hoofdstukken. Naast de hoofdstukken bevat het boek: grammaticablokken: n of twee pagina's met activiteiten regelmatig verspreid tussen de hoofdstukken. Ze richten zich expliciet op de belangrijkste grammaticale structuren die de generatieve kracht van de schema's met zinsstructuren versterken. Op dit niveau gaan ze vooral over de vervoegingen van belangrijke werkwoorden in de tegenwoordige tijd, geven ze de leerlingen een inleiding tot het gebruik van naamvallen en bieden ze mogelijkheden om vertrouwen op te bouwen met de Duitse woordvolgorde;blokken vraagvaardigheden: n of twee pagina's over het begrijpen en maken van vragen. Ook deze blokken komen regelmatig verspreid tussen de hoofdstukken in het boek voor, om dezelfde vraagpatronen in verschillende taalkundige contexten te hergebruiken;blokken 'Even Herhalen': dit zijn herhalingsoefeningen die erop gericht zijn de eerder geleerde woordenschat levend te houden. Ook deze komen regelmatig voor;zelftesten: deze tref je aan het einde van het boek aan. Ze zijn verdeeld in twee secties, een voor minder zelfverzekerde een een voor meer zelfverzekerde leerlingen. Het doel van alle bovenstaande blokken is om veel systematisch hergebruik en afwisseling te implementeren, twee technieken die een sterkere retentie en overdracht van leren mogelijk maken

This is the answer booklet for "French Sentence Builders - A Lexicogrammar approach" by Gianfranco Conti and Dylan Vi ales. French Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by three modern languages educators with over 55 years of extensive classroom experience between the three, both in the UK and internationally. This 'no-frills' book contains 19 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout.

This is the answer booklet for "French Sentence Builders - A Lexicogrammar approach Pre Intermediate to Intermediate" by Gianfranco Conti and Dylan Vi ales. French Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by three modern languages educators with over 55 years of extensive classroom experience between the three, both in the UK and internationally. This 'no-frills' book contains 19 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout.

This is the answer booklet for the second book in the "German Sentence Builders" series, "Pre-intermediate to Intermediate".

German Pre-intermediate to Intermediate Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by three modern languages educators with over 60 years of extensive classroom experience between the three, both in the UK and internationally. This 'no-frills' book contains 15 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout. Each unit includes: 1) A sentence builder modelling the target constructions;2) A set of vocabulary building activities;3) A set of narrow reading texts exploited through a range of tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text;4) A set of retrieval-practice translation tasks;5) A set of writing tasks targeting essential micro-skills such as spelling, lexical retrieval, syntax, editing and communication of meaning. Based on the Extensive Processing Instruction (E. P. I.) principle that learners learn best from comprehensible and highly patterned input flooded with the target linguistic features, the authors have carefully designed each and every text and activity to enable the student to process and produce each item many times over. Alongside the macro-units you will find: Question-skills units: two pages on understanding and creating questions. These micro-units occur after every unit in the book, so as to recycle the same question patterns in different linguistic contexts; Revision workouts: these are retrieval practice tasks aimed at keeping the previously learnt vocabulary alive. They too occur at regular intervals, after every other unit. Please note that The Language Gym language-gym.com website is an ideal supplement to this booklet. Our website recycles every single lexical and structural item found in this book many times over via self-marking vocabulary, reading & listening workouts, in addition to engaging and fun games and a powerful Verb, Listening Trainer, Vocab & Sentence Trainer.

This is the Workbook for the ReaderA teenage boy wakes up lying on the hot cobbles of a Toulouse street. With no memory of who he is, nor why he is in France, he sets out on a quest to discover his own identity and purpose. Following a trail of tantalising clues through the picturesque backstreets of Toulouse, he meets a cast of colourful characters, from the charming Valentina and the mysterious Hassan, to the menacing and elusive Albert. In the first part of a four-book series, our protagonist searches for himself, but will he be happy with the person that he finds? Conceived for, and with input from, iGCSE French students, the Les trangers series brings the iGCSE topic areas to life through an engaging and exciting mystery in one of the most beautiful locations in France. Thanks to its parallel texts which guarantee 100 % comprehensible input at all times; the repetition of key language items; the judicious use of cognates and choice of high-frequency vocabulary drawn from the 2,500 most frequent French words, this book is ideal for learners in the A2-B1 proficiency band. For further consolidation we recommend the accompanying activities workbook which provides a wide range of engaging word- and grammar-focused tasks designed to engage the learner at various level of processing of the text, i.e.: spelling, word-/phrase-recognition, grammar, syntax, meaning and discourse building.

A teenage boy wakes up lying on the hot cobbles of a Toledo street. With no memory of who he is, nor why he is in Spain, he sets out on a quest to discover his own identity and purpose. Following a trail of tantalising clues through the picturesque backstreets of Toledo, he meets a cast of colourful characters, from the charming Valentina and the mysterious Hassan, to the menacing and elusive lvaro. In the first part of a four-book series, our protagonist searches for himself, but will he be happy with the person that he finds? Conceived for, and with input from, iGCSE Spanish students, the Extranjeros series brings the iGCSE topic areas to life through an engaging and exciting mystery in one of the most beautiful locations in Spain. Thanks to its parallel texts which guarantee 100 % comprehensible input at all times; the repetition of key language items; the judicious use of cognates and choice of high-frequency vocabulary drawn from the 2,500 most frequent Spanish words, this book is ideal for learners in the A2-B1 proficiency band. For further consolidation we recommend the accompanying activities workbook which provides a wide range of engaging word- and grammar-focused tasks designed to engage the learner at various level of processing of the text, i.e.: spelling, word-/phrase-recognition, grammar, syntax, meaning and discourse building.

This is the WORKBOOK for Extranjeros 1A teenage boy wakes up lying on the hot cobbles of a Toledo street. With no memory of who he is, nor why he is in Spain, he sets out on a quest to discover his own identity and purpose. Following a trail of tantalising clues through the picturesque backstreets of Toledo, he meets a cast of colourful characters, from the charming Valentina and the mysterious Hassan, to the menacing and elusive lvaro. In the first part of a four-book series, our protagonist searches for himself, but will he be happy with the person that he finds? Conceived for, and with input from, iGCSE Spanish students, the Extranjeros series brings the iGCSE topic areas to life through an engaging and exciting mystery in one of the most beautiful locations in Spain. Thanks to its parallel texts which guarantee 100 % comprehensible input at all times; the repetition of key language items; the judicious use of cognates and choice of high-frequency vocabulary drawn from the 2,500 most frequent Spanish words, this book is ideal for learners in the A2-B1 proficiency band. For further consolidation we recommend the accompanying activities workbook which provides a wide range of engaging word- and grammar-focused tasks designed to engage the learner at various level of processing of the text, i.e.: spelling, word-/phrase-recognition, grammar, syntax, meaning and discourse building.

This book is meant as a revision resource for GCSE German. It can be used independently by students as well as for teacher-directed classroom practice. It contains 16 units which focus mainly on the themes: myself, family and relationships, daily activities, my role model, hobbies and leisure. Each unit consists of a knowledge organiser recapping the target sentence patterns and lexical items, a series of receptive vocabulary building activities; a set of narrow reading texts and activities; a set of translation tasks. The tasks are graded in order to pose an increasingly demanding but manageable cognitive load and challenge and are based on Dr Conti's P. I. P. O. framework: Pre-reading tasks (activation of prior knowledge and pre-teaching)In-reading tasks (intensive exploitation of texts)Post-reading tasks (consolidation)Output (pushed-output tasks)Consistent with Dr Conti's E. P. I. approach, each of the 16 units in the book provide extensive recycling of the target lexical items both within each unit and throughout the book, across all the dimensions of receptive and productive processing, i.e.: orthography (single letters and syllables), lexis (both words and chunks), grammar/syntax (with much emphasis on functional and positional processing), meaning and discourse. The recycling occurs through input-flooding and forced retrieval through a wide range of engaging, tried and tested, classic Conti tasks (more than 20 per unit). These include student favourites such as slalom writing, faulty translation, spot the missing detail, sentence puzzles, etc. Table of contents1 Introducing myself2 Describing myself, my family and friends3 Talking about my hobbies and interests4 Describing a typical day in school5 Describing what I do after school6 Talking about a typical weekend7 Talking about what I did last weekend8 Talking about when I was younger9 Discussing the qualities of a good friend10 Describing the qualities of a good partner11 Saying why I don't get along with people12 Saying why I get along with people13 Saying why I argue with my parents14 Discussing why couples break up15 Talking about a person I admire16 Bringing it all together - Parts 1-5

This is the newly updated SECOND EDITION! This version has been fully re-checked for accuracy and re-formatted to make it even more user-friendly, following feedback after a full year of classroom use by thousands of teachers across the world. Spanish Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by two modern languages educators with over 40 years of extensive classroom experience between the two, both in the UK and internationally. This ''no-frills'' book contains 19 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout. Each unit includes:1) A sentence builder modelling the target constructions;2) A set of vocabulary building activities;3) A set of narrow reading texts exploited through a range of tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text;4) A set of retrieval-practice translation tasks;5) A set of writing tasks targeting essential micro-skills such as spelling, lexical retrieval, syntax, editing and communication of meaning. Based on the Extensive Processing Instruction (E. P. I.) principle that learners learn best from comprehensible and highly patterned input flooded with the target linguistic features, the authors have carefully designed each and every text and activity to enable the student to process and produce each item many times over. This occurs throughout each unit of work as well as in smaller grammar, vocabulary and question-skills micro-units located at regular intervals in the book, which aim at reinforcing the understanding and retention of the target grammar, vocabulary and question patterns.

This version has been fully re-checked for accuracy and re-formatted to make it even more user-friendly, following feedback after a full year of classroom use by thousands of teachers across the world. Spanish Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by two modern languages educators with over 40 years of extensive classroom experience between the two, both in the UK and internationally. This 'no-frills' book contains 19 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout. Each unit includes: 1) A sentence builder modelling the target constructions;2) A set of vocabulary building activities;3) A set of narrow reading texts exploited through a range of tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text;4) A set of retrieval-practice translation tasks;5) A set of writing tasks targeting essential micro-skills such as spelling, lexical retrieval, syntax, editing and communication of meaning. Based on the Extensive Processing Instruction (E. P. I.) principle that learners learn best from comprehensible and highly patterned input flooded with the target linguistic features, the authors have carefully designed each and every text and activity to enable the student to process and produce each item many times over. This occurs throughout each unit of work as well as in smaller grammar, vocabulary and question-skills micro-units located at regular intervals in the book, which aim at reinforcing the understanding and retention of the target grammar, vocabulary and question patterns.